It’s almost impossible to imagine Grace Jones doing anything ordinary. The Jamaican-born model, muse, and performer has been fearlessly pushing boundaries, with her sound and her style, since she burst onto the scene more than three decades ago. She even managed to...

Do you ever have one of those perfect days where, as you head off to work, the air around you glorious and crisp, you really feel like you’re just nailing it, professionally? Or at least, you’re on the cusp of nailing it? Yes, you think, I will get my assignments in...

Tomorrow, Fort Greene’s Commodore Barry Park will host the eleventh annual Afropunk festival, a weekend-long celebration of alternative music, art, and the nonconformists who make it. Case in point, the iconoclastic lineup of performers who are as recognized for their...

Shockwaves went through the fashion industry in the early nineties when Eve Salvail first appeared on the runway with a shaved head, her head bare save for a curled dragon tattooed on her scalp. Her hair, or lack thereof, stood in direct contrast with the lengthy,...